Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 43, No. 2 (May 2011), pp. 301-312 (12 pages) For the 2004-2006 growing seasons, we trapped a total of 6980 spiders (5066 adults, 1914 immatures) using ...

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

Although the diversity of spider orb web architectures is impressive, few lineages have evolved orb webs larger than lm in diameter. Until recently, such web gigantism was reported only in a few ...

Researchers studying a 305-million-year-old fossil reveal that it belonged to a never-before-seen arachnid they named Idmonarachne brasieri. This close relative of the earliest spiders, described in ...

THE scientific study of spiders has remained peculiarly neglected. In particular the field of systematics, until recently, has relied almost exclusively on the morphological species concept of the ...

Introduction -- Insects, spiders, and people -- Scope and arrangement of this guide -- Classification -- What is an insect? -- The body plan of insects and entognaths -- Growth and development of ...

Daddy longlegs, instantly recognizable by their eight gangly appendages, are regularly thought of as spiders, of which they are close relatives. Daddy longlegs and spiders are both are members of the ...

Trapped in amber, preserved for all time, is one of the weirdest and most terrifying arachnid fossils scientists have ever come across. In research published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution as ...